El Mexterminator
A presentation by Creative Time and El Museo del Barrio, New York
June 1-28, 1998
Ethnographic bandits take cultural myths hostage in a citywide performance by Chicano artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña, who is Mexterminator, plus Roberto Sifuentes as Cyber Vato and Bay area choreographer Sara Shelton Mann as La Cultural Transvestite. The series includes impromptu public performances, a live Internet chat and an installation at El Museo.

Stanley Spencer: An English Vision
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
June 6-Sept. 6, 1998
Final stop of the touring show of more than 60 works by the British painter (1891-1959) known for Biblical allegories, WWI scenes and unsparing nudes.
Curators: Hirshhorn director James T. Demetrion and British Council visual arts head Andrea Rose.

James TurrellMilk Run II
1997

James Turrell: Spirit and Light
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
June 6-July 26, 1998
A look at 30 years of light-as-art, featuring six light chambers, documentation of Roden Crater celestial observatory outside Flagstaff, Ariz., and models of two new Houston projects: a "skyspace" for the Live Oaks Friends Meeting House and a light installation for the MFA's Main Street tunnel.
Curator: Lynn Herbert (Houston CAM).
Catalogue contributors: Herbert; engineering prof. John Lienhard; Jungian analyst and former Episcopalian priest J. Pittman McGeehee; MoMA architecture curator Terence Riley.

Japanese Art in the Age of Koetsu
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
June 6-early 1999
44 paintings, folding screens, ceramic vessels and lacquerwares made or inspired by the 16th-century esthetic pioneer, calligrapher Hon'ami Koetsu. The exhibition is one of a series of shows celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Freer.
Curators: Ann Yonemura and Louise Cort (Freer).

The Adventures of Volitia: Heroic Burlesque
Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conn.
June 7, 1998-Aug. 30, 1998
A series of large Muybridge-influenced drawings recording the movements of Melissa Mark's mutating flower-like creature, Volitia, in the artist's first solo exhibition.

The Narrative Thread: Contemporary Women's Embroidery from Rural India
Asia Society, New York
June 9-Aug. 8, 1998
A blend of estheticism and social activism, in 30 embroidered quilts detailing political and health issues of poor Indian women (who are prohibited from working according to custom).
Stops: San Antonio Art League Museum (Sept. 24-Nov. 8, 1998); National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (Feb. 4-May 9, 1999). Additional venues to be announced.
Sponsor: Ford Foundation.

Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscapes of Martin Wong
New Museum, New York City
June 18-July 3, 1998
Loisada love songs by the renowned East Village painter, in a show originated at the University Art galleries in Normal, Ill.
Curators: Dan Cameron (New Museum) and Barry Blinderman (Normal) .
Catalogue: Co-published by Rizzoli with essays by Carlo McCormick, Lydia Yee, Yasmin Ramirez, Dan Cameron and Barry Blinderman.

Andreas GurskyChicago, Mercantile Exchange
1997

Andreas Gursky
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
June 18-Sept. 20, 1998
Nine large photographs taken from distant vantage points in an exhibition devoted to German photographer Andreas Gursky. "New Topographics," a show featuring works by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz and other American landscape photographers first presented by George Eastman House, will be running simultaneously with the Gursky exhibit.
Organizer: Milwaukee Museum.
Sponsor: Foreign Cultural Relations of Stuttgart.

Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou
Baltimore Museum
June 14-Aug. 30, 1998
More than 500 objects including paintings, sculpture, flags, dolls and bottles in the first major exhibition representing Vodou -- the Creole religion derived from African traditions, Catholicism and other mystical practices. The show features a recreated Vodou temple complete with three altar chambers.
Organizer: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
Curator: UCLA professor Donald J. Consentino.
Sponsors: NEA and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Britten V1000
1996

Art on Wheels: Selections from the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum
Birmingham Museum, Al.
June 19-Sept. 6, 1998
The hog as cultural icon and design marvel, via over 20 motorcycles drawn from the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum's extensive collection. Approximately 20 additional motorcycles will be on view in The Art of the Motorcycle at the Guggenheim from June 26-Sept. 12, 1998.
Curator: Anthony Nowicki (BMA).

Tony OurslerFX Plotter 2
1992

Video: Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler and Sam Taylor-Wood
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
June 19-Sept. 22, 1998
Anxious reactions to the information age, in an exhibition featuring Minimalist video works spanning three decades. Includes Oursler's FX Plotter 2, in which a projected face recounts the agitation felt while watching gruesome special-effects cinema.
Curator: Robert R. Riley (SFMOMA).

Thomas Moran
Seattle Art Museum
June 20-Aug. 30, 1998
Nearly 100 watercolors and oil paintings in the first retrospective of American landscape artist Thomas Moran (1837-1926), including the vast Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone that Congress purchased to hang in the U.S. Capitol. The Seattle Art Museum's complementary exhibition, The Paving of Paradise: A Century of Photographs of the Western Landscape, is on view from May 7, 1998-Jan. 24, 1999.
Organizers: National Gallery (premier venue) and the Gilcrease Museum (2nd venue), Tulsa, Ok.
Curators: Nancy Anderson (NGA) and Trevor Fairbrother (SAM).
Sponsors: Boeing Co. et al.

Bonnard
Museum of Modern Art
June 21-Oct. 13, 1998
Sensuous nudes in bed and bathroom landscapes, plus still lifes and interiors -- some 80 sumptiously colored works by the Nabi painter. "Bonnard" premiered at the Tate Gallery in London prior to opening at MoMA, its final venue.
Co-organizer: Tate Gallery.
Curators: John Elderfield (MoMA), art historian Sarah Whitfield and critic David Sylvester.
Sponsor: The Starr Foundation.

Nicholas Goldsmith
Tensile pavilion with intergrated photovoltaics

Under the Sun: An Outdoor Exhibition of Light
Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, NY NY
June 21-Oct. 25, 1998
Earth's most abundant resource, via an outdoor exhibition of solar-powered pavilions, chairs and facilities illuminated day and night in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden.
Sponsor: BP Solar and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Worthington WhittredgeEncampment on the Plains
1866

The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830-1880
Dallas Museum of Art
June 21-Sept. 20, 1998
The small prepratory oil sketch stands on its own, in an exhibition featuring works by eight 19th-century American landscape painters including Cole, Church and Bierstadt.
Curator: Eleanor Jones Harvey (DMA).
Sponsor: Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

Concerned Theater Japan: The Graphic Art of Japanese Theater, 1960-1980
American Institute of Graphic Arts, 164 Fifth Avenue, New York
June 24-Aug. 22, 1998
Eroticism, anarchic violence and mysticism, via 70 posters that exemplify Japanese theater's defiance of cultural taboos in the '60s. Part of the Cooper-Hewitt centennial celebration.
Organizer: Krannert Art Museum, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Curator: University of Illinois professor David G. Goodman.
Stops: Japanese Cultural Center, Berlin and the ggg Gallery, Tokyo (dates to be announced).